macaroony
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Any news yet on the End of March update and what is included?
Any news yet on the End of March update and what is included?
Thanks for that. On another matter, does this unit support portable external hard drives ie non- externally powered?
NIGHTMARE
I just switched on my DS to watch the football, I thought it was a bit odd because the front panel was a bit dark in the lefthand corner (so it looked like ..TV1 HD), tried a cold reboot, still the same problem.
So I thought I'd check the media menu - it's completely wiped the hard disk.
So everything I'd recorded over the last few weeks has gone. GUTTED.
I thought maybe the box has done a factory default or something so I checked the schedule but everything is still there.
Tried going into the disk information screen but it's just a blank page so I'm guessing the HD has broken. Tried "repair disk" but nothing happens. Looks like it's well and truly knackered.
Is there anything else I can try?
If you haven't already then the only thing I can think is the old
Power Off - 30 Seconds - Power On
Cheers
Pete
Get in touch with MIT, even if the hard drive has gone faulty it's likely to be the reading heads or controller, the recordings will still be on the storage platters in which case MIT maybe able to recover everything.Just writing an email to JL now. This DS (a replacement) was dispatched on the 2nd of Feb (originally bought in January) - will they honour the 28 day refund policy?
Get in touch with MIT, even if the hard drive has gone faulty it's likely to be the reading heads or controller, the recordings will still be on the storage platters in which case MIT maybe able to recover everything.
I'll wait for a response from JL first, hopefully they'll offer me a refund. This is my second failed DS (and MIT weren't very helpful with the first one) so I think I'll go for a refund if possible and then maybe buy a Humax instead.
I'll wait for a response from JL first, hopefully they'll offer me a refund. This is my second failed DS (and MIT weren't very helpful with the first one) so I think I'll go for a refund if possible and then maybe buy a Humax instead.
And I missed most of the football, just caught the last 10 minutes
I'll wait for a response from JL first, hopefully they'll offer me a refund. :
I'll wait for a response from JL first, hopefully they'll offer me a refund. This is my second failed DS (and MIT weren't very helpful with the first one) so I think I'll go for a refund if possible and then maybe buy a Humax instead.
And I missed most of the football, just caught the last 10 minutes
Strange one, anyone had a clock display that loses time ? Noticed that when in standby the clock was a good 30 minutes slow on the display, but when the DS was booted up the system clock was correct.
Then when put in standby again the clock had changed to the correct time.
NIGHTMARE
I just switched on my DS to watch the football, I thought it was a bit odd because the front panel was a bit dark in the lefthand corner (so it looked like ..TV1 HD), tried a cold reboot, still the same problem.
So I thought I'd check the media menu - it's completely wiped the hard disk.
So everything I'd recorded over the last few weeks has gone. GUTTED.
I thought maybe the box has done a factory default or something so I checked the schedule but everything is still there.
Tried going into the disk information screen but it's just a blank page so I'm guessing the HD has broken. Tried "repair disk" but nothing happens. Looks like it's well and truly knackered.
Is there anything else I can try?
EDIT: I thought I'd try switching on the logging to see if that reported anything. Put the DS into standby and out again and now the front panel is completely dark (there's still text there but it's very dim). Nothing in the "system message" page.
After another cold boot the display was back to normal for a couple of seconds and then it went dim again, the top of the DS is really hot (it's only been powered up for about 15 minutes) so I wonder if the fan has failed and that's resulted in the box overheating and breaking the hard disk.
Funny in a way because I was only saying the other day how the fan isn't that noisy.
Might be worth trying to let the box fully cool down, then try booting it up. If you've got a big fan, set this to blow on the box. If you do get it to boot, try the repair disk. If you've had disk corruption and this happens to be in the Linux OS, then it definitely won't behave - maybe reapplying a full version update would help by replacing it, though would only work if the box stays up a few minutes. If you think it's trashed already, might be worth trying the FVU anyway as a Linux repair as you've nothing to lose?
I left it an hour and then tried a boot, the display did the same thing - starts up normal then the front display gradually fades from the lefthandside until it's all dim.
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I could try a factory default or even have a go at an FVU this evening.
I'm guessing the DS has overheated somehow (when I booted it up I noticed that the fan was working briefly during the boot sequence so I don't think it's due to the fan failing), so if this has damaged the motherboard or disk controller or whatever then it's not really worth trying to fix it.